[Nourishing Life Master].
By the time Mu Changsheng came back to his senses, he realized that at some point he had already left the [Sea of Bitterness] and arrived inside this familiar pagoda.
But looking around, there wasn't a single person.
"My Lord..."
He subconsciously swallowed his saliva, sensing something. A rare feeling of terror rose in his heart. He raised his head, his gaze climbing up layer by layer.
The entire pagoda was misty with spiritual energy, precious light steaming. The Dao Fruits of the entire sea of light were here, each manifesting its Dao resonance. This atmosphere became more intense the higher one went. But up until the sixth floor, everything came to an abrupt halt. All kinds of psychedelic colors and precious light spiritual atmosphere froze at one location.
A person was standing there.
He looked calm, placing a book back on the shelf, as if he were just a student who had come to borrow a book and was now returning it after reading.
And the book he returned was named [Heavenly Fire].
As for the rules above the sixth floor that only late-stage Golden Core Great Perfected Lords could tread upon, the invisible barrier seemed nonexistent as he stepped on it.
Mu Changsheng's gaze trembled.
How is this possible...
The other party just stood quietly on the seventh floor, firelight rising around him, looking up at the eighth and ninth floors, a hint of regret surfacing in his eyes.
Mu Changsheng could no longer understand. He couldn't understand how he returned to the [Nourishing Life Master], nor could he understand how the other party broke through the restrictions above the sixth floor. Filled with doubts, in the end, only awe remained, causing him to respectfully prostrate on the ground.
"Subordinate cultivator... greets the Perfected Lord."
Clearly, they were both Perfected Lords, just with a difference in cultivation base. Even now, [Heaven of Nothingness] had achieved the wonder of a Dao Fruit, yet Mu Changsheng still referred to himself this way.
This was actually a very strange thing.
Because if one were to truly discuss cultivation base and oppression, [Sky-Shrouding], the Old Dragon Lord, Perfected Lord Feixue, and [Perfected Lord Gangxing Budao] actually all surpassed the person before him.
But there was one point unique to the person before him.
Feathered ascension, transcendent and refined, jumping out of the Three Realms, not within the Five Elements... Only the person before him could give him this kind of transcendent Great Dao Immortal Resonance!
This made Mu Changsheng lower his voice even more.
For no other reason than fear of startling the celestial being.
Rustle...
Just like that, the huge [Nourishing Life Master] was left with only the calm sound of turning pages. Aside from this, no one spoke, and no one arrived.
Mu Changsheng carefully stole glances at the celestial being above. Gradually, his gaze became intoxicated by the graceful firelight lingering around the other party, as if seeing some Great Dao truth. For a time, he watched entranced, even forgetting what heaven and earth were.
Unknown how much time passed.
Clang.
A soft sound startled Mu Changsheng awake. He saw the celestial being had already descended, but for some reason, that Great Dao Immortal Resonance was gone.
Oh! I know!
It must be that My Lord saw my composure lost, so he deliberately restrained that heaven-shaking Dao resonance to avoid affecting me... My Lord's heart is truly benevolent!
Mu Changsheng maintained his posture of great reverence, taking a good while to squeeze out a voice:
"My Lord, this subordinate cultivator..."
Before he could finish, a Dao Fruit book landed in front of him. Mu Changsheng stared wide-eyed, only to discover it was his own [Heaven of Nothingness] book.
Immediately after, a voice drifted over:
"The Dao Fruit book is returned to you. Three days later, I will let you observe the Void Attainment Great Dao. Stay here or leave now, do not disturb me."
"This subordinate cultivator obeys!" Mu Changsheng hurriedly bowed.
After speaking, he didn't leave but obediently found a place to continue waiting.
On the other side, Lu Yang didn't care about his reaction. He just pressed his glabella with a sense of loss, then somewhat unwillingly admitted the fact:
I've become stupid again...
The state of [Supreme Dao Transformation] disappeared. It lasted less than the time for an incense stick to burn, but it allowed Lu Yang to enter an unprecedented state of super comprehension.
In this state, his control over [Heavenly Fire] also reached a whole new level. This was a change in usage based on Dao comprehension. If Dao comprehension wasn't enough, even knowing it wouldn't allow one to use it. If Dao comprehension was enough, everything would come naturally, without him even needing to try deliberately.
The me of the past only knew how to use [Inscribing Heavenly Chapters] to establish rules.
This usage is truly superficial. It looks like establishing rules, but in reality, it is also bound by rules, which is why it was difficult to have any changes.
Looking at it now, it's slightly crude.
My definition of rules at that time was simply too narrow... What are rules? The truth of all things, the operational logic—that is the rule.
Lu Yang raised his fingertip, pinching out a trace of firelight.
For example—logic.
Speech, rationality, knowledge. The inevitable veins followed by thought itself during thinking, reasoning, judging, and learning.
This is also a rule.
Since that is the case, why can't it be modified?
The reason he escaped from [Sky-Shrouding]'s heavy siege just now was that he directly modified a basic logic.
Normal logic is: I want to find you, so I need to know where you are.
However, at this moment, this logic was modified by Lu Yang using [Inscribing Heavenly Chapters], becoming: I want to find you, so I need to not know where you are.
A difference of one word, and everything changed.
At that time, [Sky-Shrouding] knew where he was—he was right under his nose. But after the logic was modified, [Sky-Shrouding] couldn't find him.
That's right, in [Sky-Shrouding]'s view, he suddenly disappeared from under his nose without any omen from beginning to end. However, in reality, he openly walked past him with Mu Changsheng, then entered the [Nourishing Life Master] under his gaze.
Because the logic changed, turning into a paradox.
The paradox of conflicting logic turned into a gap between rules. Lu Yang walked within it like wind passing through a gap, unaffected by the corresponding rules.
In other words: As long as I don't undo this logical paradox, I am absolutely invisible. No one can find me, even if I am right in front of them, they will ignore me.
Of course, this wasn't omnipotent.
In this state, once he acted and actively interfered with the rules outside the gap, the paradox he inscribed would immediately collapse on its own.
Or if his spiritual power was exhausted, he would also automatically exit.
This was just one usage of [Inscribing Heavenly Chapters]. Lu Yang had another realization under [Supreme Dao Transformation], which he deemed even more important.
Heaven and earth... are too big.
The Immortal Nexus was big enough, but placed in the entire sea of light, it was like dust. [Inscribing Heavenly Chapters] claimed to be able to inscribe rules, but how far could rules influence?
In my previous life, the rules I inscribed could at most affect my surroundings.
They couldn't even affect the entire Immortal Nexus. Moreover, the larger the range, the weaker the power.
Ultimately, heaven and earth are infinite, while human power has limits. Attempting to control the infinite with the finite was originally an arrogant act of greed like a snake trying to swallow an elephant.
Lu Yang exhaled deeply, slowly putting the firelight pinched in his hand into his lips.
Therefore... the true usage of [Inscribing Heavenly Chapters] is not to cast it outwardly, but to cast it inwardly, inscribing within the inner self, then expanding outward!
The firelight was swallowed into his body by Lu Yang.
At this moment, he used [Inscribing Heavenly Chapters] to inscribe the first rule for his own dharma body.
Immediately after, Lu Yang's body slowly underwent changes. Infinite smoke spread out, enveloping his whole body, making it impossible to distinguish male from female or discern his origins.